re: 49ers Fan Showing "Evidence" Of NFL Being Rigged!?

How come refs are not fined for making bad calls but players and coaches get fined for criticizing?

I don't think it was fixe at all...but the "Seattle had more penalties" thing has flaws. Severity/timing of those penalties is big. You count Seattle's running into the kicker as a call against them. But blowing that and not calling the roughing led to 7 Seattle points.

The fact of the matter is that there was no bias.

Losers blame the refs for their team's failure.

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You are assuming I can't tell the difference between a bad call and manipulation.

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No, I'm not assuming, I know you can't or more accurately choose not to.

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Did you see any bad calls or bad no calls in this year's Super Bowl?

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I wasn't watching that closely. There was maybe a call I thought could have been PI, but that is purely subjective and wouldn't have affected the outcome.

In the BCS CG they missed a horse collar on FSU's last drive, would have helped FSU. It was because the ref had a bad angle. At that point FSU was not going to cover the spread and them winning the game outright would have been more beneficial so no reason the blow that call on purpose to fix the game.

But that isn't failure, now is it?

I'm glad you posted the Pittsburgh/ san diego game from 2008. That game was the 3:00 national game and Vegas got absolutely destroyed earlier that day. Some people here say it was "just a blown call" have no clue. In the NFL they have this little thing called instant replay. The NFL likes to use it on scoring plays, but somehow determined that the Pitt touchdown should not be allowed.

For those who don't know, that play was the last play of the game. By disallowing that touchdown millions of dollars swung in Vegas' direction. If you remember, they did not post an official score for about 20 minutes. The game announcers sounded like they ate a shite sandwich because they could not explain it. This game was one of the greatest fixes in NFL history.

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But the pros are a different animal.

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exactly, even the refs make 6 figures for part time work. Why would anyone risk that for chump change? And if they made big bets, someone would notice. The people that take bets tend not to be flaming idiots or gullible.

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For those who don't know, that play was the last play of the game. By disallowing that touchdown millions of dollars swung in Vegas' direction

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This is false. More money was bet on Pittsburgh than on SD. Pittsburgh was a 4.5 point favorite and won by 1 as a result of the blown call. So Vegas LOST a lot of money on that.

Here is a little jewel for all to enjoy LINK


That Rosenbloom enjoyed gambling on football seems beyond doubt. “I know he gambled on college games over the years, but I didn’t see that much when he bought the Colts,” Steve Rosenbloom said.

But Bell Jr. said he witnessed Rosenbloom placing a bet on the Colts.

“I walked into his room and he was on the phone and hollered to me, ‘Bertie, do you like us today?’ ” Bell Jr. said. “Then he said into the receiver, ‘Yeah, give me some of that.’ I just sauntered away.”

Bell walked away from the Colts at the end of that season. His father, who had died in 1959, was known as an anti-gambling commissioner.

“People thought I left because someone else was promoted to GM, but I could never have worked as a GM under Carroll,” Bell Jr. said. “I knew there would come a day when he would have asked me to do something illegal.”


Nothing to see here

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Whats a big bet to you?

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To me? $100

To a casino, it would depend on the circumstances and the bettor. They notice unusual things, different betting patterns all kinds, large amounts, like over $10K perhaps maybe more, maybe less, depending on their handle. They would certainly notice something like multiple bets over that amount, especially if they always win and who really would have the discipline to make bets they know they are going to lose?